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at_logo_transparentISSN 0268-540X
Incorporating RAIN (issn 0307-6776; as from vol. 15: 0268 540X).

Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology.

It is also committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education, medicine, development etc. as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines.

The journal is international both in the scope of issues it covers and in the sources it draws from.

April 2009 (v25 i2)

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Anthropology Today April 2009 volume 25 issue 2. Front and back cover by artish Sean Weisgerber.

Ethnicity, Race and the Limits of Human Identity

The front and back covers show artist Sean Weisgerber's interpretation of the theme of this issue, the problem of classifying human identity in a world of fusion and change. Articles address biometric security, the use of the concept of ‘tribe' in US army counter-insurgency programmes, and human identity as constituted in and through debate among Afghani refugees recently returned from northern Pakistan to Afghanistan.

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February 2009 (v25 i1)

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Anthropology Today April 2009 volume 25 issue 1

Front cover caption

A boy shows off on his horse at the annual festival of racing, games and music in Barsko'on, Kyrgyzstan in October 2007. The festival includes endurance races of up to 36 kilometres over steep, rocky mountain paths and streams, a far cry from the bowling-green surfaces of Churchill Downs and Newmarket.

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